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=== [[Anime and Manga]] ===
* The ''[[Macross]]'' franchise (and presumably ''[[Robotech]]''), play this more realistically, with General Quarters and condition levels rather than the klaxon and red light.
* Happens several times in the anime ''[[Anime/Hanaukyo Maid Tai Hanaukyo Maid Tai|Hanaukyo Maid Tai Hanaukyo Maid Tai]]'' (both seasons) when an emergency occurs in the mansion, sometimes with rotating lights and sirens.
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{{quote|''"Condition Red has been issued! Condition Red has been issued! All pilots, standby in your machines!"''}}
=== [[Film]] ===
* ''[[Doctor Strangelove]]'' was based on a serious [[Cold War]] thriller novel by Peter George entitled... ''Red Alert''.
* In the film ''[[Our Man Flint]]'', after Lloyd Cramden learns that Flint is alive he calls a "Purple Alert".
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* ''[[Master and Commander]]'' had a scene where a young officer, suspecting the enemy ship is nearby in the fog and about to attack, calls "Beat to quarters!" We see the Napoleonic War version of a ship going into Red Alert and the officer's decision proves most prudent as the ship is fired upon and the crew is ready for battle.
=== [[Literature]] ===
* ''[[Star Wars]]'', of course, had to get in on the action, though the original trilogy didn't.
** In [[The Thrawn Trilogy]], Pellaeon explains to [[Magnificent Bastard|Grand Admiral Thrawn]] that the wing commander of the scout ships is fairly certain he eluded pursuit, but that he ordered the sentry ships to yellow alert anyway. Thrawn opines that if they were from the [[La Résistance|Rebellion]] (as he [[Insistent Terminology|insists]] on calling [[The Alliance|the New Republic]]), the ships didn't lose their pursuers. Pellaeon asks if they should go to red, to which Thrawn remarks "There's time."
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* In the book ''[[The Andromeda Strain]]'', the noise of the sirens going off when areas become contaminated is so loud that it they have to ask someone to turn it down so they can communicate. This tends to highlight the fact that the base systems were not tested properly. This is a major [[Real Life]] problem, if a system is not designed correctly.
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* The name of this trope comes from the Red Alert in ''[[Star Trek]]''. Over the many series ''[[Star Trek]]'' had accumulated many variants:
** Yellow Alert - When the ship is approaching a potentially dangerous situation.
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* Parodied in ''[[Get Smart]]''; they have Red Alert, but they also have things like "Magenta Alert" and "Blue Alert".
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'' plays with this trope and [[Color-Coded for Your Convenience|
* ''[[Half Life
* In ''[[Star Trek Armada]] II'', alerts contain a different approach, Green alert is
* The ''[[Crusader: No Remorse
* Used reasonably in the ''[[Escape Velocity]]'' series: a warning alarm sounds when a hostile vessel turns its attention on you - and then promptly shuts up, letting you frag the baddies and/or get the heck out of Dodge as appropriate. (If you have an [[Enemy-Detecting Radar|IFF Decoder]], you may also get to see the enemy vessel's dot turn red at this moment.)
* The ''[[Evil Genius (video game)|Evil Genius]]'' video game has three alert levels: Normal (green button, normal duties), Warning (yellow button, everybody is armed and ready), and Danger (red button, everybody is armed, ready, runs, and fires at will).
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* In ''[[Mega Man X Command Mission]]'', [[Boss Battle]]s open with an alarm siren and the word "'''WARNING'''" flashing in red stencil letters.
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* When the tennis player from the [http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p2 Death Volley arc] in ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' is injured, he sounds a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Med Alert.]]
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* In a ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law]]'' episode that parodies the Homeland Security color alert system, code red is followed by code ''blackwatch plaid'', which is then followed by an alert consisting of the cover art from Rush's ''Moving Pictures'' album.
* [[Transformers|Red Alert!]] [[Memetic Mutation|WOO WOO WOO WOO!]]
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** In both "Arctic Splashdown" and "The Robot Spy" there are "scramble alerts" at Air Force bases, with jets taking off. In "The Robot Spy" the Duty Officer actually says he's going to call a "Red Scramble" and pushes a [[Big Red Button]] with the label "Red Alert".
=== [[Real Life]] ===
* Britain's version of
** That was replaced by 'UK Threat Level' about... ooh, about ''five years ago''. We had to replace all the signs. It's been at 'Heightened' since its inception.
* [[Truth in Television]]: The United States Department of Homeland Security Terror Alert Level, which is on {{color|yellow|yellow}} by default. There are two lower levels ({{color|blue|Blue}} and {{color|green|Green}}), but they have never been called. {{color|orange|Orange Alert}} has been called a few times, but {{color|red|Red Alert}} has only been called once, after some idiot terrorists tried to sneak liquid explosives onboard airplanes coming in from England and have caused problems for millions of air
** Shortly after the terror alert system was first created, Jay Leno did a bit on ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' spoofing it. The final mock colour alert was "White with a black dot," which meant "Terrorists are impersonating Jay Leno."
** The system was also spoofed by Stephen Colbert in the opening on one episode of ''[[The Colbert Report]]''. Colbert reported that the alert level had been raised to brown, because "somebody spilled coffee on the chart."
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** Military installations will often use a similar system, which include the added convenience of a distinctive alarm reserved for incoming enemy attack.
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* ''[[Code Red]]'' had a really dramatic Emergency Squad Scramble with a large firehouse crew and fleet, including the Fire Chief in his own car, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zIuMyW5ZS0&feature=related as shown here.]
* ''London's Burning'' usually featured a similar but lower-key scene centered on one or two fire engines.
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* ''S.W.A.T.'' The opening credits started with the team responding to an alert over their radio by gearing up and boarding their police van. As seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Iwp1d7eKbA here].
=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===
* The [[Tabletop RPG]] ''[[Shadowrun]]'' supplement "Neo-Anarchists' Guide to Real Life'' mentioned how exciting it was to watch a DocWagon Crisis Response Team respond to a crisis "Code Blue" alert.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* [[Fireman Sam|"All present and correct, sir!" "Right, let's go!"]]
=== [[Real Life]] ===
* A variation on this trope occurs in hospital emergency departments, in which an ambulance crew can radio a hospital dispatcher for "medical control" - asking a hospital-based doctor for instructions on how to manage a critically ill/injured patient while en route. The dispatcher's radio will emit a loud, harsh buzz/honk sound, audible throughout the triage area, when such a call is placed. If the call warrants assembling a resuscitation team, the dispatcher will then issue an overhead page to the rest of the department, indicating what the emergency is (adult or pediatric, medical or trauma) and how long before it arrives.
** It is also worth note that most hospitals DO have a "code red." It is used in case of fire. (other common codes are blue, in case of cardiac arrest; ADAM, in case of missing persons; triage, in case of a large amount of incoming emergency patients; and some sort of bomb threat code.)
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** The tones have another purpose besides an audible alert. Each department in an area will have distinct two-tone alerts that are used to un-squelch pagers and radios, so as to not hear the radio all day unless a call comes in. Firefighters and EMS workers can tell who is being dispatched just by recognizing the tones.
=== [[Literature]] ===
* In the ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'' novel ''[[Hand of Thrawn|Specter of the Past]]'', we are treated to two separate chapters starting with the battle alarm going off at an unfair moment for [[Badass Normal|Wedge Antilles]]: the first time in the middle of dessert, the second in the middle of the night. (His commander was feeling hunchy, though, and so Rogue Squadron were already sleeping in their ships...)
=== [[Live Action Television]] ===
* The voice of SID: [[UFO|''Red--Alert--Red--Alert--U-F-O--U-F-O.]] One of the most direct Battle of Britain homages on this page, not surprising given that Gerry Anderson spent his National Service in the RAF.
** Moonbase called them too. SHADO Control once called a "Maximum Security Alert - Condition Red".
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* ''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]]'' often featured this.
** In particular, the [[Fighter Launching Sequence]] in the first ''Wing Commander'' game is accompanied by a Red Alert complete with klaxon, even for routine patrol missions.
* [[Spiritual Successor]] ''[[Starlancer]]'' carries on the tradition, with a short cutscene of fighter crews running along the corridor while a red light flashes. One can only assume the Squadron Leader's briefings have a tendency to overrun.
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* Benjamin Glee thinks [http://intragalacticcomic.com/2008/10/13/004-travel-advice/ strafing] is the best way to show you're focused, even if there isn't a Red Alert.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* ''[[Swat Kats]]'' has their scramble alarm linked to Callie Briggs' communicator. It sounds the alert buzzer and flashes the red light throughout the main building in the salvage yard, especially in the garage where they often are fixing cars. Whenever it goes off, it's time to move move move!
=== [[Real Life]] ===
* Most uses of this trope can be traced to the real-life Battle of Britain, the first time that radar technology allowed defending fighters enough warning to wait on the ground rather than running constant standing patrols. The [[wikipedia:Battle of Britain (film)|1969 film]] features many examples, with pilots lounging in the sun in full flight gear until the dispatcher rings the scramble bell.
* This practice still goes on today in [[NATO]], where it's called Quick Reaction Alert or QRA for short. The British used it for their V-bombers (which were bombed up), where you possibly had as little as five minutes before nukes started landing, the instruction being take off and head for the "start line" .
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